Title
River (Hô)
Author
Tàu-lāu-jiát
Publisher
Lai Ho Culture Foundation
Released Date
September 2005.
License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 Taiwan License.
Type
Music and Text
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Description
This combined CD album and brochure was produced to celebrate the 110th anniversary of the birthday of Lai Ho. (Lai is the family name.) Lai Ho was a doctor, a writer, and a social activist at a time when Taiwan was under Japanese rule. He was the cultural editor of a newspaper Taiwan Minbao, and wrote an influential column Twilight. He was put into prison several times and passed away in 1943, one year after he was released from prison.
The creators of this CD wrote in the brochure: "What would Lai Ho think if he could see our group of young people penning songs for him more than half a century after his passing? What would he think of the still prevalent societal ugliness? This summer, during the production of River, our youthful tears injected a new burst of vitality into the passionate life of Lai Ho; and our melodies coaxed his spirit from the confines of history."
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